Gretchen Rubin Quotes

It's the broken plans you have made that are the hardest to get over.

It's too late and it's too bad, don't think of me.

Our suffering is caused by holding on to how things might have been, should have been, could have been.

... sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.

I've also learned that sometimes, no matter how much you want things to work, you have to accept that sometimes they just don't.

There are some songs where you're like, 'I really like this song,' and it just didn't work out how you thought it would. That's life. You win some, you lose some. You can't dwell on it. I can't be worried about the past.

The only thing I'd ever wanted in my life was to be a major-league ballplayer, but I had to admit to myself that I wasn't good enough. It broke my heart.

Normally, a loss, it's hard to swallow, but you get over it sooner or later.

When you lose, you keep thinking, 'I could have done things differently,' but at that moment, you can't do anything, so it is important to let go.

For me, the dilemma is I love Bristol, but you can only do that for so long and not get it back. It's been something that's been hard for me to accept. It breaks my heart.

I say good-bye to hope, but I also say good-bye to hope's disappointment.

If I could undo what's been done, But I guess everyone is living, With water and bridges.

Now, there's no use crying over spoiled milk.

What's the use coming home to get the blues over what can't be helped.

it is discouraging to leave the past behind only to see it coming toward you like the thunderstorm which drenched you yesterday.

That what cannot be repaired is not to be regretted.

I'm starting to think, though, that some things never get that. The replay, and all. So at some point you have to make peace with it as it is, not keep waiting for a chance to change it

I left him in his wheelchair, staring sadly into the fireplace. I wondered how many times he’d sat here, waiting for heroes that never came back.

He cried that night for all that he had lost, but he would say it taught him a valuable lesson: that holding on to things "will only break your heart.

It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.

I should have known right then it was too good to last, God, it's such a drag when you're livin' in the past

Didn't help to ponder things that were forever gone. It only made a body restless and fill up with bees, all wanting to sting something.

Regrets are so far from reality.

It's time to live with what we have and mourn what we lost.

Beautiful loser, where you gonna fall? When you realize, you just can't have it all.